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While hard data on total water use in buildings is somewhat difficult to come by, the U.S. Green Building Council estimates that buildings account for 14% of domestic water consumption in the U.S.¹ Other sources report 12%—a relatively small percentage compared with, say, agriculture, but it represents tens of billions of gallons of domestic water consumed every day.²
In addition to the millions of single-family homes in the U.S. and Canada, hospitals, laboratories, industrial facilities, apartment and condo complexes, commercial kitchens, sports arenas, hotels, and office developments are particularly large consumers of domestic water for interior uses. For instance, toilets in commercial buildings alone consume 1.2 billion gallons of water a day.³
There are also severe inefficiencies in the system. For example, EPA WaterSense estimates that 80% of the 12 million urinals in the U.S. use up to five times the federal standard of 1.0 gallons per flush and waste more than 150 billion gallons of fresh water a year, enough to supply 1.5 million homes.4
In the U.S., the Energy Policy Act of 1992 first brought the issue of water conservation to light by banning the installation of toilets that consume more than 1.6 gpf—a move that led to outcries from building owners and homeowners for awhile, until manufacturers, plumbers, and contractors could work out the mechanical problems of the early units. Since then, new regulations, the growth of the green building movement, and significant improvements in plumbing products have enabled Building Teams, homeowners, and property owners to drastically cut water use in buildings.
This past August, Los Angeles became the first U.S. city to mandate high-efficiency fixtures in all new buildings and major renovations. The ordinance, which kicks in December 1, limits toilets to 1.28 gallons per flush and urinals to 0.5 gpf. The regulation also requires high-efficiency faucets (2.2 gallons per minute), pre-rinse spray valves (1.6 gpm), showerheads (2.0 gpm), commercial dishwashers (0.62-1.16 gallons/rack), and, starting next year, pint-flush urinals (0.125 gpf).5
Other cities in California are expected to follow suit in light of the statewide drought.4 And it's only a matter of time before jurisdictions throughout the U.S.—especially those in water-scarce regions like the Southwest—mandate the switch to high-efficiency water technology.6
Earlier this year, the U.S. Green Building Council raised the bar for green buildings with the release of LEED 2009. LEED now requires a 20% reduction in water use as a prerequisite and increases the number of Water Efficiency credits in its various programs. Even more drastic is a new requirement for LEED-certified projects to submit performance data on water (and energy) use for five years after certification.
These increasingly stringent standards and regulations—along with large-scale drought and water scarcity in a growing number of regions of the country—are driving demand for water-saving systems and technologies. Manufacturers have heeded the call by providing a slew of low- or no-flow products, sensor-activated devices, graywater recycling systems, and water submetering technology (Table 3.1).
And Building Teams are responding. According to the BD+C/Professional Builder 2009 White Paper Survey, most Nonresidential Survey respondents said their firms are already using an average of 9-10 water-saving technologies and expect their firms to make use of 13-14 such systems in the near future. High-efficiency lavatory faucets (1.5 gpm or less), sensor-activated faucets, and sensor-activated flush valves are the most commonly specified technologies, followed by high-efficiency showerheads (2.0 gpm or less), water metering devices, tankless water heaters, and high-efficiency urinals. Waterless urinals, dual-flush toilets and flush valves, and high-efficiency dishwashers are also gaining popularity with Building Teams (Table 3.2).
In certain building types, such as offices and schools, implementation of these interior water-saving technologies alone can cut overall water consumption by 30% or more, with payback periods as short as three years on certain technologies. High-efficiency toilets and faucet spray aerators can have the quickest payback, especially in retrofit projects.4
A case in point: The Parc 55 Union Square Hotel in San Francisco is saving $170,000 a year on water and sewer charges after replacing more than a thousand 3.5-gpf toilets with pressure-assist 1.0-gpf units, according to a third-party research report. The hotel is saving nearly a million gallons of water every month, and its toilet-related maintenance calls have been cut in half.7
"When it comes to conserving water in buildings, the first step is to look at the plumbing fixtures," says Heath Baxa, PE, LEED AP, a project manager and head of sustainable design with M-E Engineers Inc., Wheat Ridge, Colo. The next step, says Baxa, is to look at the feasibility of reusing water on the site, and "that's where things get more complex."
Graywater for flushing: The next wave?
Installing water-efficient fixtures, industry experts say, will only take water conservation so far, perhaps to a 20-30% reduction in use. Shooting for a reduction of 40% or more will most likely require Building Teams to look at ways to reuse water. Inside buildings, that means using graywater—primarily the wastewater from bathroom sinks, showers, and clothes washers—to flush toilets and urinals.
To date, the use of graywater for flushing has been pretty rare. Only 21% of AEC respondents to the 2009 White Paper survey said their firms had specified graywater reuse systems in the past two years, even though the potential for water savings using graywater is significant, especially in office buildings, schools, hotels, and multifamily developments. And, unlike rainwater harvesting, where the water supply depends on the whim of Mother Nature, commercial and multifamily buildings provide a relatively constant source of graywater. "In a large office building, just the water from sinks can be significant on a daily basis, certainly enough to flush many toilets and urinals," notes green building consultant Jerry Yudelson, PE, MBA, LEED AP in his August 2009 report to the Mechanical Contractors Association of America Research Foundation.4
Despite growing demand and unrealized potential for graywater reuse in buildings, however, plenty of hurdles remain for those looking to implement graywater systems for toilet flushing.
First, there's the cost hurdle, both the cost of the systems themselves and the cost of the space associated with tanks, pumps, and treatment, not to mention the need for dual-piping to separate graywater from potable water. "Those are the biggest obstacles," says Julie Paquette, PE, LEED AP, an associate with the Green Integration Group, R.G. Vanderweil Engineers, Boston. Even in Boston, where water rates are well above the national average, Paquette says owners balk at the long payback and O&M requirements of water reuse systems.
The next hurdle: building and plumbing codes. Many jurisdictions simply have not caught up with the technology, forcing Building Teams to invest a lot of time asking for special approval for alternative approaches. "Even the mere threat of a construction delay or additional preparation costs frightens many owners from pursuing established alternative water-conservation strategies," says Jeffrey Gaines, AIA, LEED AP, a senior associate, manager of programming and planning, and sustainable design committee leader with Albert Kahn Associates, Detroit.
Some states and localities make it really hard to use graywater. Until recently, for example, Oregon required applicants to obtain a water quality permit comparable to that for a municipal wastewater treatment plant. Coupled with high permit fees, this requirement effectively killed graywater reuse in the state. This past June, Oregon changed its law to allow graywater to be used for "beneficial uses," such as flushing toilets and urinals and irrigating certain trees and plants.8
Code officials and plumbing boards justify their position by saying that their first responsibility is to protect the public's health and safety and that graywater, if not treated properly, could become a breeding ground for microorganisms and other potential health hazards. In the absence of science-based quality standards for graywater reuse (something several plumbing manufacturers are trying to develop), they say, graywater reuse should be limited to underground drip irrigation at best.
Code officials also point to potential maintenance problems with graywater systems, especially in homes. They argue that if many homeowners have trouble maintaining simple things like water heaters, how can they be expected to maintain complex graywater treatment systems? In response, the Alliance for Water Efficiency suggests that manufacturers could offer lifetime maintenance programs, or local jurisdictions could require periodic inspections of such systems.9 Either way, there would be added costs.
The International Code Council and IAPMO are working on the problem. For example, IAPMO's Green Plumbing and Mechanical Code Supplement, due out next February, introduces language pertaining to the use of graywater recycling and rainwater harvesting, with the goal of speeding the code review and approval process for these new technologies (more on this in Chapter 5, page WP33).
California's Department of Water Resources is in the process of adopting statewide standards for installing dual plumbing systems—one for potable water, the other for recycled water—within virtually any commercial and institutional building type. If adopted in January, the code would allow recycled water to be used in toilets and urinals, air-conditioning devices, cooling towers, and floor trap priming. Building owners would have to implement health and safety measures, such as cross-connection testing, installation of purple-colored pipes, and posting of signage in rooms that utilize recycled water or house recycled water equipment.10
Despite the obstacles, demand for graywater recycling is expected to grow as code bodies and jurisdictions become more accepting of these technologies and costs for implementation come down. Half of the respondents to our Nonresidential Survey and nearly a quarter respondents to the Residential Survey said they plan to install these systems within the next two years. One sign of a budding graywater market is the growing number of off-the-shelf solutions being developed by manufacturers (see sidebar, page WP21).
Drain line transport issue: How low can we go?
One huge concern among plumbing engineers and contractors is the possibility of clogging that could occur in drain lines when new water-efficient fixtures are installed. Greater efficiency leads to less water in the drain lines, meaning that there may not be enough water to flush waste down the pipes.
"When the industry went from 3.5 gallons per flush to 1.6 in the 1990s, there was a lot of talk about drain lines drying up; now we're going to 1.28 and even lower to one gallon per flush," says Pete DeMarco, IAPMO's director of special programs. "We know that somewhere between 1.6 and zero gallons per flush, building owners are going to have problems with clogging because there won't be enough wastewater in the system."
This problem can be especially nettlesome in large commercial projects such as shopping malls, office complexes, and warehouses that have long, horizontal drainage lines to the sewer. A 2005 study of nine high-efficiency toilets using four drain line diameters and slope configurations found greater potential for waste remnant and potential blocking with drain lines as short as 50 feet (with four-inch-diameter pipe at a 1% slope) if no supplemental flows are present.11
While there have been no major cases of drain line clogging involving high-efficiency fixtures in the U.S., building owners in Europe and Australia have recently reported problems. Last year, the city of Tucson, Ariz., was so concerned with possible backup in its sewer lines (which can lead to dangerous and malodorous hydrogen sulfide concentrations) that it suspended its program of retrofitting low-flow toilets in older neighborhoods.
Concerned that manufacturers may be reaching a "tipping point" in how low they can go in water efficiency, five plumbing industry groups have formed the Plumbing Efficiency Research Coalition with the goal of sponsoring an extensive research study on drain line carry. According to IAPMO's DeMarco, who is coordinating the project for PERC, the study will 1) use computational fluid dynamics to model how far waste will travel under various guidelines, 2) conduct laboratory mockup tests of cast iron and PVC piping in three diameter sizes, and 3) field test actual plumbing systems.
PERC hopes the research findings will help designers on new projects or retrofits to take into account both current—and future—levels of wastewater flow when designing drain lines. This may involve adding more pitch to pipe runs, avoiding long, horizontal drain lines, and reducing the number of elbows.
Technology | Current base | Most efficient | Future possible | Comments |
Sources: Environmental Building News, February 2008; U.S. EPA | ||||
Toilets | 1.6 gpf | 0.8 gpf (pressure-assist and dual-flush units) | Water-free composting toilets (niche technology: remote buildings, demonstration green projects) | • Progressive jurisdictions are moving toward 1.28 gpf as the standard • Dual-flush is gaining share in women's restrooms |
Urinals | 1.0 gpf | 0 gpf | "Blue cube" converts installed, standard-flush urinals into 99% water-free units | • Pint-flush (0.125 gpf) units quickly gaining market share • New WaterSense label defineshigh-efficiency as 0.5 gpf |
Showerheads | 2.5 gpm | 1.5 gpm | Innovations in performance and user experience by maximizing droplet size and spray force with less water | • WaterSense label defines high-efficiency as 2.0 gpf • Hotels slow to adopt low-flow (due to guest complaints) |
Faucets | 2.5 gpm at 80 psi; 2.2 gpm at 60 psi; 1.5 gpm at 60 psi (residential lavatory faucets) | 0.5 gpm | • Innovations in faucet/aerator design to create perception of strong flow • Improvements in sensor technology | Studies show that sensors may increase water use by activating unnecessarily and operating longer than needed |
Pre-rinse spray valves (commercial kitchens) | 1.6 gpm | 1.28 gpm | These devices typically use more water in commercial kitchens than dishwashers | |
Hot water circulation systems | Continuous-circulation systems (maintain a loop of circulating hot water, reducing wait time) | Demand-controlled hot water circulators (improved energy efficiency by delivering hot water only when needed) | • Save water, but increase energy use • Common in hotels and residential • Alternative: greater hot water pipe insulation | |
Commercial clothes washers | 1.26 MEF (modified energy factor); 9.5 WF (water factor) | 1.72 MEF; 8.0 WF (Energy Star threshold) | Huge potential for graywater capture and reuse | Large commercial washing systems used in hotels and hospitals not addressed by Energy Star or other federal standards |
Commercial dishwashers | 1-1.7 gal/rack (under counter); 0.95-1.18 gal/r (stationary single-tank door); 0.7-0.79 (single-tank conveyor); 0.54 (multi-tank conveyor) | 0.28 gal/rack | Innovations in spray nozzle design, chemical additives, and water temperature to speed washing time | Water use varies widely based on model type |
Used in last 18-24 months | Expect to use in next 18-24 months | Used in last 18-24 months | Expect to use in next 18-24 months | |


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INVedit – Minecraft Inventory Editor
Here is some informations about INVedit – Minecraft Inventory Editor for Minecraft Frostburn that you can need before download it
INVedit is the (more like "some kind of") successor of NBTedit. With it you can create your own porta- wait, wrong game. You can use it to edit your inventory both Singleplayer and Multiplayer, if you're the server host.
- Add, edit and remove enchantments on items.
It is possible to give any item any enchantment with any level. - Edit books. This includes title, author, content and whether it's "signed".
- Loads blocks and items from the enclosed files.
This means anyone is able to update INVedit themselves, add items from mods, etc. - Groups for faster access of individual blocks.
- Search box lets you filter items.
- If possible, displays item damage as bar.
- Stacks items almost like in the game itself.
- Tabs for editing multiple inventories simultaneously.
You can move items between tabs. - Quick load and save.
- Automatic updating.
INVedit usually is forward-compatible with new versions of Minecraft, new items will just be missing.
You will need the .NET Framework 4.0 (Client Profile) to run this – you usually have this already installed. May also work with Mono or Wine on Linux and Mac, but there is no guarantee or support. If you're an unexperienced Mac or Ubuntu user, this is probably not the right tool for you. There are a few unofficial tutorials on how to do it, but I really suggest using a different tool or mod.

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When 13-year-old Hania Aguilaris laid to rest in North Carolina on Saturday her father will be nearly 3,000 miles away.
The US State Department has denied a temporary visa for Noé Aguilar to travel from Guatemala to attend services for his teenage daughter, according to the father's attorney.
"I had hoped they would find it in their hearts to let me be there for my daughter's funeral," Aguilar told CNN in a brief phone interview Friday.
"It's very sad. She was my princess. She will always be my princess."
Immigration attorney Naimeh Salem said US embassy officials in Guatemala denied the temporary visa on grounds that Aguilar "didn't have enough ties to his home country, Guatemala."
"That is not true," she said. "He has family there and his own business."
State Department will not comment on specific visa cases
Hania's body was found last week in water off a rural road after she was abducted last month outside her home in Lumberton, North Carolina, police said.
Salem said her client has requested another visa interview but has not heard back from US embassy officials in Guatemala.
State Department spokeswoman Marlo Cross-Durant said details of individual visa cases are confidential.
"All visa applications are adjudicated on a case-by-case basis in accordance with the requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) and other applicable laws," her statement said.
"The Department of State makes every effort to facilitate legitimate travel by international visitors. We are also fully committed to administering U.S. immigration law and ensuring the integrity and security of our country's borders."
In a letter, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper asked the US ambassador in Guatemala to reconsider the visa application decision so Hania's family "can properly mourn their lost child in this tragic and extraordinary case."
"As you can imagine, the family is devastated by the loss of such a promising young lady who was loved (by) her family, friends and was one of the top students in her class," wrote Cooper.
Additionally, about 10,000 people have signed a petition in support of the father's visa request, according to CNN affiliate WSOC.
Father will stay home alone or take a long walk during funeral
Hania's grandfather and a maternal aunt received temporary visas to attend the funeral, according to Aguilar and Salem.
"This hurts," Aguilar said. "This is not a visa for sightseeing or staying in the country. I'm fine in my own country. I have work here. I only wanted a day or two to bury my daughter."
Hania was an eight-grader at Lumberton Junior High School. Aguilar said he last saw his daughter in 2005. He said they spoke on the phone and her mother talked to him about their daughter and sent photos.
"She was very far away but she was always close in my heart and mind," Aguilar said.
Aguilar is not sure what he will do on Saturday at the time of the funeral.
"Maybe I'll get lost somewhere," he said. "I don't know how I will deal with it. I'll either stay home or take a long walk alone."
Hania was abducted outside her home in rural Lumberton on the morning of November 5, authorities said. Her body was found last week in Robeson County, Lumberton police Chief Michael McNeill said.
Lumberton is in southeastern North Carolina, near Interstate 95, about 95 miles from Raleigh.
Police said she was kidnapped in a relative's SUV that was idling in the driveway on a morning before school. Authorities issued an Amber Alert at the time.
A witness saw a man dressed in black and wearing a yellow bandana force Hania into the vehicle. Police said they have no reason to think Hania knew her abductor, and her family is cooperating with the investigation.
The stolen SUV was found abandoned less than 10 miles from Hania's home at the Rosewood Mobile Home Park, authorities said.
The FBI has asked the public for information on a man seen in surveillance footage walking near Hania's home. The man was described as wearing light-colored shoes, a light-colored shirt and a hoodie.
Lumberton police and the FBI have also asked residents with surveillance systems to save the videos, even if they don't see the stolen SUV in the footage, and to contact authorities.


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I started back at CrossFit last week. This week I did back squats and reverse lunges with 30kg weight-lifting bar thingy on my back. I'm feeling empowered and it has done MIRACLES to my energy levels. Let's not talk about the STILL aching pain running the entire outer length of my right leg.
I taught my first Blogging for Beginners class at Sydney Writers Centre last week. I was hellaciously nervous and there are some things I'll change in terms of format but I was happy (ie relieved) with the content.
Jasper and Felix VOLUNTARILY and SPONTANEOUSLY played a game together last night which did NOT end in tears or fighting. Mark that in your diaries will you?
We seem to be gripped by some sort of ginger obsession here at the moment and in perhaps not unrelated news the cold that had been hanging around most of us has dissipated.
Mum's just back from a cruise with one of her sisters, Aunty C. Another sister, Aunty J, and her husband were also meant to go but Aunty J ended up in hospital just days before they were set to go. She is still there and today they have put her on life support. This is one of those times your world gets sucked up into a bizarre vortex where life keeps going but you're somehow not moving at all. Thoughts, prayers, virginal sacrifices, sacrificial goats, whatever takes your fancy, you know what to do.


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The social media giant Facebook is taking steps to delete false "likes" that are posted to company Facebook pages, often by users who don't exist or don't have knowledge of the particular business, in an effort to fix an issue that could devalue a major part of Facebook's advertising model. In a blog post on Friday, Aug. 31, the company said it does not and has never permitted the purchase or sale of Facebook Likes, as they only want people connecting to the pages and brands with whom they have chosen to connect.
They newly improved automated efforts are designed to remove those likes gained by malware, compromised accounts, deceived users, or purchased bulk likes. The improved systems have been specifically configured to identify and take action against suspicious likes, the company explained, noting they have always had dedicated protections against each of these threats on Facebook.
"A like that doesn't come from someone truly interested in connecting with a page benefits no one. Real identity, for both users and brands on Facebook, is important to not only Facebook's mission of helping the world share, but also the need for people and customers to authentically connect to the pages they care about," the blog post states. "When a page and fan connect on Facebook, we want to ensure that connection involves a real person interested in hearing from a specific page and engaging with that brand's content. As such, we have recently increased our automated efforts to remove likes on pages that may have been gained by means that violate our Facebook terms."
In a filing earlier this year with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the social networking giant Facebook admitted that 8.7 percent of its 955 million members worldwide could in fact be in violation of its policies, with duplicate accounts, accounts that users maintain in addition to their principal accounts, make up 4.8 percent of that figure. In addition, the filing reveals user-misclassified accounts may have represented approximately 2.4 percent of Facebook's worldwide users, and undesirable accounts may have represented approximately 1.5 percent of their worldwide users.
Privacy issues and the problem of widespread fake accounts have recently plagued the social media behemoth. In August, Facebook and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reached a resolution following charges that the company deceived its consumers by telling them they could keep their information on Facebook private, while repeatedly allowing it to be publicly shared. The agreement requires Facebook to give its users "clear and prominent notice" and obtain their express consent before sharing personal information beyond the user's agreed-to privacy settings.
Based on the terms of the settlement, Facebook must also conduct privacy audits from an independent third party every two years and maintain a comprehensive privacy program to protect user information. The commission noted Facebook will be subject to civil penalties of up to $16,000 for each violation of the order and that the company is subject to monitoring to ensure compliance with the order.


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First Lady and Others Applaud Efforts to Make America's School Environment Healthier for Kids
"Many parents are working hard every day to make sure they provide healthy, balanced meals and snacks to their kids. Unfortunately, we don't always have control over the snacks our kids have access to when they're away from home. That's why, as a mom myself, I am so excited that schools will now be offering healthier choices to students and reinforcing the work we do at home to help our kids stay healthy." First Lady of the United States Michelle Obama
"Prodded by parents who rightly want schools to support their efforts to raise healthy kids, we've made steady progress in improving the nutrition environment in American schools. In 2002, Congress created the Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program to provide free fresh fruits and vegetables to high poverty elementary schools. In the last several years, schools have worked hard to improve the nutritional quality of school meals. And now, with the release of a final rule on smart snacks, we'll put in place common sense nutrition guidelines for snack foods and beverages sold in school stores, vending machines, and snack bars, closing a loophole that for too long has undermined the health and nutrition of our kids." Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA)
"We commend the USDA for its thorough work in developing the first-ever national standards for all foods and beverages in schools which largely follow the guidelines implemented voluntarily by our industry beginning in 2006. As a result of the industry's voluntary efforts, we have reduced beverage calories shipped to schools by 90 percent." The American Beverage Association
"Two thumbs up to USDA for issuing the interim final rule on national nutrition standards for 'smart snacks' in school. Now when we teach kids about good nutrition in the classroom, our lessons will no longer be contradicted by easy access to vending machines peddling candy and empty calorie beverages in the hallways." Alliance for a Healthier Generation CEO Howell Wechsler, Ed.D, MPH
"I commend the U.S. Department of Agriculture for taking this momentous step to bring healthier snacks and drinks to students across the nation. The updated standards are critical to addressing the nation's childhood obesity epidemic and helping our most vulnerable children get the foods and drinks they need to grow up strong and healthy." Robert Wood Johnson Foundation President and CEO Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, MD
"The retired generals and admirals of Mission: Readiness support the U.S. Department of Agriculture's efforts to improve the quality of snack foods and beverages sold in schools because of their potential impact on the nation's obesity crisis and, ultimately, the pool of young adults who are eligible for military service." Mission: Readiness
"We commend the USDA for issuing strong nutritional requirements for all snacks and beverages sold in schools during the school day. For the first time in our country's history, we now have national nutrition standards for all food sold to kids during the school day. When these new standards take effect at the start of the 2014-2015 school year, they will complement the positive impact we're already seeing from the school meal standards implemented last year." American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network President Chris Hansen
"The new USDA guidelines for competitive foods will make a huge dent in the 400 billion calories from junk foods our kids consume at school every year. For the first time in 30 years, we have a robust nutrition framework for the foods and beverages sold in school vending machines, stores, snack bars and a la carte lines. These strong standards will not only transform the food and beverages offered in schools, they will help create optimal learning environments where our children can thrive." American Heart Association CEO Nancy Brown
"Pediatricians commend USDA for taking a step forward today to make sure that all foods and beverages sold in schools, including snacks, are healthy for children. Many children eat up to half of their daily calories at school. Pediatricians would like to see those calories come from healthy foods that help children thrive. Good nutrition is critical to children's health, development, and ability to learn and grow." American Academy of Pediatrics President Thomas K. McInerny, MD, FAAP
"As a result of the updated standards announced by USDA, children will be protected from the sugar drinks and junk food that tempt them through school vending machines, a la carte lines in cafeterias, and school stores and snack bars. USDA's action is much needed given children's generally unhealthy diets and high rates of obesity." Center for Science in the Public Interest Director of Nutrition Policy Margaret Wootan
"Low-income children will especially benefit from these strong standards. When peer pressure and stigma drive low-income students to purchase less healthy appealing competitive foods, instead of eating healthy school meals, they lose out nutritionally in a much bigger way than their more affluent peers, and their families lose financially." Food Research and Action Center President Jim Weill
"MomsRising.org members across the country have sent in stories calling for stronger nutrition guidelines. It's time to get junk food out of schools so kids have healthy options and finalizing the Smart Snacks in School rule is an important next step down the path toward having increasingly healthy kids in our nation." MomsRising.org Executive Director Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner
"Millions of students currently have widespread access to snacks and beverages that are high in sugar, fat, and salt, but limited access to nutritious options such as fruits and vegetables in school stores, snack bars, and vending machines. With many students consuming up to half of their daily calories at school, these new standards represent the kind of positive change we need to help reduce obesity rates among children and teens." Kids' Safe and Healthful Foods Project Director Jessica Donze Black
"BTG congratulates USDA on its issuance of updated standards that will ensure that healthier snacks and beverages are available to all students, in all schools nationwide. These standards are the next critical step to ensuring healthier school environments for our nation's children." The Bridging the Gap (BTG) Research Program - Institute for Health Research and Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago
"This is a victory for children and teenagers everywhere, and it couldn't have happened without YOU. Nearly 250,000 people earlier this year wrote to the USDA in support of the proposed guidelines. Because of people like you, the USDA knows how important these guidelines are to kids' health." PreventObesity.net, a project of the American Heart Association
"Increasing the availability of fresh fruits and vegetables as snacks in schools will go a long way towards creating a healthy school food environment and improving nutrition for 32 million school children. In addition, this will drive opportunities for increased produce sales to schools, especially for fresh and fresh-cut fruits and vegetables in convenient single servings." United Fresh Produce Association Vice President of Nutrition and Health Dr. Lorelei DiSogra
USDA is focused on improving childhood nutrition and empowering families to make healthier food choices by providing science-based information and advice, while expanding the availability of healthy food. Highlights of the Smart Snacks in School nutrition standards include:
- More of the foods we should encourage. Like the new school meals, the standards require healthier foods, more whole grains, low fat dairy, fruits, vegetables and leaner protein.
- Less of the foods we should avoid. Food items are lower in fat, sugar, and sodium and provide more of the nutrients kids need.
- Targeted standards. Allowing variation by age group for factors such as portion size and caffeine content.
- Flexibility for important traditions. Preserving the ability for parents to send their kids to school with homemade lunches or treats for activities such as birthday parties, holidays, and other celebrations; and allowing schools to continue traditions like fundraisers and bake sales.
- Ample time for implementation. Schools and food and beverage companies will have an entire school year to make the necessary changes, and USDA will offer training and technical assistance every step of the way.
- Reasonable limitations on when and where the standards apply. Ensuring that standards only affect foods that are sold on school campus during the school day. Foods sold at afterschool sporting events or other activities will not be subject to these requirements.
- Flexibility for state and local communities. Allowing significant local and regional autonomy by only establishing minimum requirements for schools. States and schools that have stronger standards than what is being proposed will be able to maintain their own policies.
America's students now have healthier and more nutritious school meals due to improved nutrition standards implemented as a result of the historic Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010.
Collectively these policies and actions will help combat child hunger and obesity and improve the health and nutrition of the nation's children; a top priority for the Obama Administration. The interim final rule announced today is an important component of First Lady Michelle Obama's Let's Move! initiative to combat the challenge of childhood obesity.
USDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer. To file a complaint of discrimination, write: USDA, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, Office of Adjudication, 1400 Independence Ave., SW, Washington, DC 20250-9410 or call (866) 632-9992 (Toll-free Customer Service), (800) 877-8339 (Local or Federal relay), (866) 377-8642 (Relay voice users).


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Canberra seeks answers from Israel on Zygier affair
Foreign Minister Bob Carr asks Jerusalem to aid in investigation into arrest and death of Australian national
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia has asked Israel to explain the mysterious death of an Australian-Israeli citizen and alleged Israeli spy in an Israeli prison two years ago, the foreign minister said on Sunday.
Foreign Minister Bob Carr last week ordered his department to report on its handling of the case of the man dubbed Prisoner-X in the media, who died in an Israeli prison in December 2010.
Carr had initially said his Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade had been unaware that the prisoner — who was born Ben Zygier, had an Australian passport in the name of Ben Allen and was also known as Ben Alon, had been in custody until his Australian family asked for his body to be repatriated.
But Carr corrected the record and ordered the departmental internal investigation on Wednesday after discovering that Australian intelligence officers had alerted some department officials 10 months earlier that the Australia-born Israel resident has been arrested on serious national security charges.
Carr said on Sunday that Israel had been asked to contribute to his department's investigation report.
"We have asked the Israeli government for a contribution to that report," Carr told reporters.
"We want to give them an opportunity to submit to us an explanation of how this tragic death came about," he said.
The Australian Broadcasting Corp. has reported that Zygier was a Mossad intelligence service agent who hanged himself in a supposedly suicide-proof solitary confinement cell.
The Australian foreign minister at the time of Zygier's death, government lawmaker and former prime minister Kevin Rudd, has refused to say when he became aware of Zygier's arrest and death.
But Rudd urged the government to consider taking action against Israel as it did in 2010 when an Australian investigation concluded that Israel had counterfeited four Australian passports used by a suspected hit squad that murdered a Hamas official in Dubai in January that year. In May 2010, Australia expelled a member of Israeli's embassy in retaliation.
"The tradition of this government has to be robust on these matters, even with a country with whom we've had the friendliest of relationships going back to the foundation of Israel in 1947," Rudd told Sky News television.
Australia's Fairfax Media reported last week that Zygier was one of at least three dual Australian-Israeli citizens being investigated by the main Australian spy agency ASIO in early 2010 over suspicions that they were spying for Israel.
Critics have accused the Israeli government of trying to cover up the affair and are demanding a full investigation, fueling a debate about balancing national security and freedom of information in a country that prides itself as a vibrant democracy.
The sensational saga has dominated public discourse in Israel since it was first reported by ABC on Tuesday last week.
Despite a whirlwind of foreign media reports easily accessible on the Internet, Israel maintained a gag order on the case for 24 hours. Late Wednesday, Israel acknowledged parts of the story, saying it had held a dual Israeli citizen under a false name for security reasons, and that he died in prison in 2010 from an apparent suicide.
The Israeli announcement did not identify the man and left key questions unanswered: What crime was Zygier accused of? Why was he confined to severe isolation? How did he commit suicide when he was under 24-hour surveillance? And why was the case hidden from the public for more than two years, even after it was reported in Australia?
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Independence, MO, to Frankfort, KY
It was a short drive of only about two hours from Blue Springs Campground near Independence, MO, to our next stop in Columbia, MO, where we stayed at Cottonwoods RV Park, a Good Sam park. Cottonwoods RV has paved roads and patios and gravel pads with grass between the sites and a some smaller trees for a little shade. There are a few back-in sites along one side, but most of the sites are pull-throughs. There are full hookups, some with 30-amp electric and some with 30/50-amp, and there is free Wi-Fi.
Although the sites are relatively long, they are a little narrow. There is one row of extra-cost premium pull-throughs that are extra-extra long. The photo below shows our standard pull-through site at Cottonwoods RV.
The next photo is a view down the road past our site.
There was a little traffic noise from the four-lane highway that went past the campground, and we could hear the PA announcer over at the fairgrounds next door on the weekend. However, it was hot so we ran the air the whole time we were there, and the outside noises weren't that noticeable.
Our summer travels are beginning to wind down now that we are heading back east. We scheduled four days in Columbia so we could relax and so we wouldn't be traveling over the weekend. Although there are a few things to do in Columbia, MO, we didn't make any sightseeing plans.
We did make a Walmart run (actually we stopped at Walmart several times while we were in Columbia), and we went to the Boone County Farmers Market on the western side of downtown on Saturday. The market had about a dozen vendors, and they had a nice selection of local produce.
We bought some zucchini and a tomato. The zucchini was a new variety of golden zucchini that was outstanding. It had a somewhat nuttier and sweeter flavor than regular green zucchini. The tomato was excellent, too. What a treat to have locally-grown, fresh produce. Walmart saves us a lot of money on groceries, but produce isn't one of their strong suits - sometimes it's OK, other times not so much.
From Columbia, it was a little longer drive of about four hours to our next stop. We drove through St. Louis, and Margery got a nice shot of the arch as we passed by.
We planned to stop at at Wayne Fitzgerrell State Recreation Area in Whittington, IL. The recreation area has over 200 sites, most of which are first come-first served, so we didn't make reservations. From a satellite view on Google Maps, we could see the campground was heavily wooded, but it looked like there might be a few sites where we could get satellite.
We parked the motor home near the entrance, unhooked the toad, and drove through the campground. Wow! Although it was even more wooded than we thought, there was a lot of dappled sunshine. Had we not been concerned about satellite reception, it would have been a campground that we would have enjoyed.
We found a couple of sites we thought might work; but they had very few 50-amp sites, and all the ones where we thought might get satellite were 30 amps. Thirty amps is fine in cooler weather, but when it's sunny, hot and humid, we need 50-amp service to run both air conditioners to keep the rig cool during the day.
Earlier, at the interstate exit, we saw a sign for a private campground nearby, so we decided to give them a call to see if they had any sites where they thought we could get satellite reception before we tried any of the sites at Wayne Fitzgerrell. The name of the other campground was Whittington Woods, so we didn't have much hope since they had "Woods" in their name, but we figured it was worth a shot. To our surprise, they said they had a full hookup, 50-amp site available where they were sure we could get good satellite reception.
Whittington Woods was a bit more expensive than Wayne Fitzgerrell, but at about $30 with a Good Sam discount, it wasn't unreasonable for a full hookup, pull-through, 50-amp site. Wayne Fitzgerrell is $20 a night for electric only, and only a handful of sites have 50 amps.
Whittington Woods has nice, fresh gravel on the roads and pads. There is grass between most of the sites, but it's a little sparse because of all the shade, which is heavier overall than Wayne Fitgerrell. There are both pull-throughs and back-ins. The next photo shows our site at Whittington Woods. You can see our dish pointing at the small, sunny opening in the trees. Actually, it looked like the two sites next to us would have also worked for satellite, but they recommended the site they gave us as THE satellite site.
The sites were pretty narrow, but the campground wasn't anywhere near full so we had plenty of space and privacy. There is a fair amount of traffic noise from nearby I-57, and it would have been pretty noticeable if we hadn't had the air conditioner running all night.
<We originally planned to stay at Wayne Fitzgerrell for two nights, but after we changed our plans on where to stay, we also changed our plans on how long to stay and decided to move on the next morning. We were able to hook up the toad the night before to get an early (for us) start around 9:00 AM. We had a drive of almost five hours (including a fuel stop), plus we lost an hour to the time change from Central to Eastern Daylight time.
Our next stop was at Still Waters Campground north of Frankfort, KY, which is near Lexington, where we planned to stay for a week. We originally wanted to stay at the Kentucky Horse Park camping area in Lexington because it would have been more centrally located to some of the things we wanted to do; but there is a major equestrian event at the Horse Park for the month of October, and the campground was closed to the public in October AND September so they can make the campground into a "grooms' village" for the event.
Still Waters is a gem. It's about 10 miles north of Frankfort making it pretty far out of the way, but that wasn't all bad. There were no trains, no interstate noise, and it was far enough from the two-lane road that passed by the entrance you could hardly even hear the small amount of local traffic. The campground wasn't real full, and it was very, very quiet. The weather even cooled off to the low 80s during the day and the 50s at night so we could open the windows and hear the crickets.
Still Waters has gravel roads and pads that are grassy gravel. All the sites are back-ins, and there is a mixture of full hookup, water and electric only, 30-amp and 50-amp sites. We had a full-hookup site with 50 amps. There is no Wi-Fi and no cable, but that doesn't bother us. We could easily spend a month here which we have noted for the future.
As you can see from the photo below taken looking down the road toward our site, the grassy sites are fairly widely spaced. There is also a nice mix of sun and shade.
There appeared to be a fair number of seasonals, but the sites all looked relatively neat. One or two of the RVs were older, but they were all in good condition. About our only complaint about the campground was some of the roads are a bit uneven, which means you have to drive the RV very slowly. The peace and quiet more than made up for a few dips in the road.
We're planning some sightseeing in the Frankfort/Lexington area, so stay tuned; and we'll tell you what we found.


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HELSINKI, Finland & CORTINA, Italy — July 25, 1952 & February 4, 1956
Most athletes dream about going to the Olympics—winter or summer—but few realize those dreams. Only a rare group, though, play both the Winter and Summer Olympics. Vsevolod Bobrov was one such exceptional athlete. He represented the Soviet Union internationally in both hockey and soccer. As a soccer player, he scored 97 goals in 116 Soviet league games, winning the national championship three times. Bobrov joined Dynamo Moscow for its 1945 tour of Britain and drew rave reviews after scoring six goals against teams which included Chelsea, Arsenal, and Glasgow Rangers. He suited up for the Soviet national soccer team at the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki and became a legend after scoring a hat trick in a 5-5-tie against Yugoslavia, arguably the most famous Olympic soccer game ever played. The Yugoslavs led 5-1 with 15 minutes left when Bobrov and his Soviets stormed back to tie the game. Bobrov, however, fell in love with hockey and quit soccer one year after the Helsinki Olympics. Representing CDKA Moscow (predecessor to CSKA) and VVS Moscow, he won the Soviet hockey championship five times, scoring 254 goals in just 130 games. He had been a superb bandy player in his youth ("Russian hockey," it was called) and these skills paid off in the new game, "Canadian hockey." In one league game in 1951, Bobrov scored ten goals. He became the star player on the national team that played at the 1954 World Championship in Stockholm, the first time his country had played at the most prestigious international tournament. Bobrov led the team to a stunning 7-2 win over Canada's East York Lyndhursts, giving the team a gold medal in what is still considered one of the greatest upsets of all time. Bobrov was again the hero two years later when the Soviet Union won its first Olympic hockey gold medal in Cortina d'Ampezzo. Overall, he scored 91 goals in 57 international games and later turned to coaching. Fifteen years after his retirement, Bobrov was behind the Soviet national team bench for the historic 1972 Summit Series against Team Canada's NHL players. Bobrov passed away in 1979 and was inducted to the IIHF Hall of Fame in 1997, the year it was created.
As part of the IIHF's 100th anniversary celebrations, www.IIHF.com is featuring the 100 top international hockey stories from the past century (1908-2008). Starting now and continuing through the 2008 IIHF World Championships in Canada, we will bring you approximately three stories a week counting down from Number 100 to Number 11.
The Final Top 10 Countdown will be one of the highlights of the IIHF's Centennial Gala Evening in Quebec City on May 17, the day prior to the Gold Medal Game of the 2008 World Championship.
These are the criteria for inclusion on this list: First, the story has to have had a considerable influence on international hockey. Second, it has to have had either a major immediate impact or a long-lasting significance on the game. Third, although it doesn't necessarily have to be about top players, the story does have to pertain to the highest level of play, notably Olympics, World Championships, and the like. The story can be about a single moment — a goal, a great save, a referee's call — or about an historic event of longer duration — a game, series, tournament, or rule change.
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Администрация сервиса IP-телефонии Skype через свой микроблог на Twitter назвала возможные причины сбоя, который произошел в системе вечером 22 декабря.
Skype downtime today
Earlier today, we noticed that the number of people online on Skype was falling, which wasn't typical or expected, so we began to investigate.
Skype isn't a network like a conventional phone or IM network – instead, it relies on millions of individual connections between computers and phones to keep things up and running. Some of these computers are what we call 'supernodes' – they act a bit like phone directories for Skype. If you want to talk to someone, and your Skype app can't find them immediately (for example, because they're connecting from a different location or from a different device) your computer or phone will first try to find a supernode to figure out how to reach them.
Under normal circumstances, there are a large number of supernodes available. Unfortunately, today, many of them were taken offline by a problem affecting some versions of Skype. As Skype relies on being able to maintain contact with supernodes, it may appear offline for some of you.
What are we doing to help? Our engineers are creating new 'mega-supernodes' as fast as they can, which should gradually return things to normal. This may take a few hours, and we sincerely apologise for the disruption to your conversations. Some features, like group video calling, may take longer to return to normal.
Enterprise products including Skype Connect and Skype Manager continue to function normally.
Customers using the enterprise version of Skype for Windows may still experience delays signing in.
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Submitted to: Journal of Apicultural Research
Publication Type: Review Article Publication Acceptance Date: 12/1/2009 Publication Date: 12/3/2009 Citation: Ellis, J., Evans, J.D., Pettis, J.S. 2009. Reviewing colony losses and Colony Collapse Disorder in the United States. Journal of Apicultural Research. 49:134-136. Interpretive Summary: Technical Abstract: The beekeeping industry in the United States has faced a number of obstacles to healthy bee management in recent decades. These obstacles range from arthropod pests such as tracheal mites (Acrapis woodi), varroa mites (Varroa destructor), and small hive beetles (Aethina tumida) to pathogenic diseases including Israeli Acute Paralysis Virus (IAPV) and nosema (Nosema spp). According to the National Agricultural Statistics Service, the number of managed honey bee colonies used for honey production in the U.S. has decreased steadily since the late 1940's, with the most notable decline occurring in the late 1980's with the introduction of Varroa mites into the U.S. Here we summarize recent high winter losses in the U.S., placing these losses in historical context and attempting to distinguish 'Colony Collapse Disorder' from other causes of honey bee decline. |


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Here's WFIE's Nathan Ryder's report from tonight's 5 o'clock news.
If you watch closely, you'll see that Mrs. Koch was on the first boat. She wasn't going to ride today…but at the last minute, hopped on. There are lots of Kochs on that boat, actually…Will's wife, Lori, their younger daughter, Leah, and William A. Koch III. And in the back seat, Will's brother Philip with his daughter Alexa.
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Red meat and bad science
The news lit up last week with a study purportedly showing that eating red meat will kill us. The story was immediately picked up by all the major news organizations and seemingly everyone was talking about it. I found this troubling because I've come to believe consuming quality red meat is not only one of the best, most nutritious foods we can eat, but is also a central to the very existence of homo sapiens. I was also worried because my mother was probably watching CNN and emptying her meat freezer into the garbage.
Media coverage was immediately hyperbolic as they rushed to reprint Harvard's press release. The ones I saw linked most frequently were BBC, CNN and NPR. I'm more than a little suspect of how quickly this story took off and how broadly it spread.
Whenever science is in the news, my first reaction is to try and dig up the actual study and see how far off the reporting was. Thankfully, the full text of the article is freely available: Red Meat Consumption and Mortality
The study itself is garbage. Actually, it's barely a study, it's a spreadsheet exercise. Author and information bias is rampant, the conclusions are suspect and the claims are exaggerated.
This post is divided into three parts:
- Untwisting the data – Takes the data at face value and finds inconsistencies and questionable conclusions.
- The data is meaningless – Looks at the integrity of the data and finds it absent of accuracy or rigor.
- Science starts here – Addresses the central failing: This study is a hypothesis based on a trivial association found in questionable data. To interpret any of this as conclusive fundamentally misunderstands the noble practice of scientific inquiry.
1. Untwisting the data
Reading the study, it didn't take me long to find a number of confounding variables. Starting with Table 1, which breaks down the sample sets into quintiles by meat consumption, several markers jumped out. Why meat? no reason given.
In the Health Professionals data set, the fifth quintile, those most likely to die, were also nearly 3x more likely to be smokers. They consumed 70% more calories, were less likely to use a multi-vitamin, drank more alcohol and, playing statistical games and video games like overwatch where you can play with different overwatch characters and become skillful, were almost twice as likely to be diabetic (3.5% vs 2%). Amusingly, high cholesterol had an inverse correlation; those reporting the highest cholesterol had the lowest mortality.
And still many people take supplements for help their digestive system such as prebio thrive, and they actually feel better and say their digestion is better and easier among other benefits.
The study's conclusion could just have easily been "diabetic smokers who don't exercise or take multivitamins and eat a lot show increased risk of death."
A number of thoughtful responses to this paper have been posted in the past few days.
Denise Minger noticed many of the same confounders that I did and graphed them:
Zoë Harcombe looked at the numbers and found the researchers' conclusions didn't match the data.
The article says that the multivariate analysis adjusted for energy intake, age, BMI, race, smoking, alcohol intake and physical activity level although some people increase the exercise and quit smoking by getting into vape tank reviews or you can get started right away by going to Slim's ejuice. However, I don't see how this can have been done–certainly not satisfactorily.
She then went on to re-plot their data and found that death rates actually decreased in the middle quintiles–more meat consumed resulted in less mortality. I made this chart from her data:
According to this interpretation, increasing all meat consumption from baseline initially reduced mortality. Also note that mortality in the fourth quintile, despite higher BMI, more smokers and all the rest, shows essentially the same risk level as the first.
Her summary notes the study's results are based on very small numbers:
The overall risk of dying was not even one person in a hundred over a 28 year study. If the death rate is very small, a possible slightly higher death rate in certain circumstances is still very small. It does not warrant a scare-tactic, 13% greater risk of dying headline–this is "science" at its worst.
Zoë also notes a potential conflict of interest:
one of the authors (if not more) is known to be vegetarian and speaks at vegetarian conferences[ii] and the invited 'peer' review of the article has been done by none other than the man who claims the credit for having turned ex-President Clinton into a vegan – Dean Ornish.
Ornish and Clinton are a whole other essay.
Marya Zilberberg posted another takedown of the numbers, including this analysis:
The study further reports that at its worst, meat increases this risk by 20% (95% confidence interval 15-24%, for processed meat). If we use this 0.8% risk per year as the baseline, and raise it by 20%, it brings us to 0.96% risk of death per year. Still, below 1%. Need a magnifying glass? Me too. Well, what if it's closer to the upper limit of the 95% confidence interval, or 24%? The risk still does not quite get up to 1%, but almost. And what if it is closer to the lower limit, 15%? Then we go from 0.8% to 0.92%.
2. The data is meaningless
So there's all of that, but it's almost not worth arguing about. The study's primary data sets have been shown to be wildly inaccurate.
As noted in the original paper's abstract:
Diet was assessed by validated food frequency questionnaires [FFQs] and updated every 4 years.
Four years? What did you have for lunch yesterday? How about the Thursday prior? What was dinner last October 12th? Looking at the actual 2010 survey forms (HPFS and NHS, basically the same), the questions are even more absurd. Over the past year, how frequently did you consume 1/2 cup of yams or sweet potatoes? Kale? I'm pretty mindful of what I eat, and I don't think I could answer those question accurately for the past two weeks, let alone an entire year. Anything beyond 5-6 per week is going to be a wild guess.
The two cohort groups were the Nurses' Health Study (NHS), which is all female, and the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study (HPFS) which is all male. The HPFS has a helpful Question Index on their site, though the collected data appears to be even spottier than I would have guessed. Quite a few questions and topics have just come and gone over the years, are they just making it up as they go along?
Is this really the pinnacle of epidemiological data from one of America's premiere universities?
The study's authors did include a citation to a paper (their own) justifying the validity of FFQ data in the NHS. Walter Willett and Meir Stampfer, both of the Harvard School of Public Health, are authors on both papers.
In response to a similar meat-phobic article a few years ago, Chris Masterjohn looked at the accuracy of this particular validation study and found it lacking:
the ability of the FFQ to predict true intake of meats was horrible. It was only 19 percent for bacon, 14 percent for skinless chicken, 12 percent for fish and meat, 11 percent for processed meats, 5 percent for chicken with skin, 4 percent for hot dogs, and 1.4 percent for hamburgers.
An Australian validation study based on NHS found similar discrepancies between FFQ and food diary intake. Fruits and vegetables were overestimated while bread, poultry and processed meats were underestimated. Curiously, in the Australian study, meat was overestimated. (see Table 1)
Another particularly compelling paper out of Cambridge tested FFQ validity by comparing sampled biomarkers against FFQ and food diary intake data. From the results:
There were strong (P < 0.001) associations between biomarkers and intakes as assessed by food diary. Coefficients were markedly attenuated for data obtained from the FFQ, especially so for vitamin C, potassium and phytoestrogens
This paper deeply undermined the credibility of FFQs and clearly struck a nerve. Unsurprisingly, Willett was defensive of his data and deflected by attacking the study's statistical modeling methodology in the same journal.
From an outsider's view, it seems like Willett, Stampfer and the Harvard School of Public Heath are actively subverting the entire scientific journal publishing ecosystem to advance their own causes and careers. They get their names on hundreds of published papers, and cross-reference their own work repeatedly, thereby inflating their citation scores. Then they put out press releases touting themselves as the top most-cited scientists of the previous decade.
3. Science starts here
Gary Taubes wrote a lengthy but worthwhile response, Science, Pseudoscience, Nutritional Epidemiology, and Meat. Throughout his career, Taubes has shown himself to care deeply for the practice and integrity of science. His essay starts out by addressing HSPH's record:
every time in the past that these researchers had claimed that an association observed in their observational trials was a causal relationship, and that causal relationship had then been tested in experiment, the experiment had failed to confirm the causal interpretation — i.e., the folks from Harvard got it wrong. Not most times, but every time. No exception.
By example, he defines exactly why this study is a failure. If anything, this study is a hypothesis, there can not be any conclusions drawn from tiny statistical correlations:
Science is ultimately about establishing cause and effect. It's not about guessing. You come up with a hypothesis — force x causes observation y — and then you do your best to prove that it's wrong. If you can't, you tentatively accept the possibility that your hypothesis was right. […] Making the observations and crafting them into a hypothesis is easy. Testing them ingeniously and severely to see if they're right is the rest of the job — say 99 percent of the job of doing science, of being a scientist.
The problem with observational studies like those run by Willett and his colleagues is that they do none of this. That's why it's so frustrating. The hard part of science is left out and they skip straight to the endpoint, insisting that their interpretation of the association is the correct one and we should all change our diets accordingly.
Perhaps most interesting is Taubes' explanation of Compliance Bias. Noting that the survey period covers the 1990s, an era of skinless chicken and egg whites, he points out an obvious problem with the data:
when we compare people who ate a lot of meat and processed meat in this period to those who were effectively vegetarians, we're comparing people who are inherently incomparable. We're comparing health conscious compliers to non-compliers; people who cared about their health and had the income and energy to do something about it and people who didn't. And the compliers will almost always appear to be healthier in these cohorts because of the compliance effect if nothing else, of course they can also try products as cbd oil to feel more relaxed, but then I will complain about how long cbd oil takes to work, even if that depend on the organism.
J Stanton wrote a good explanation of observational studies and their faults. He also points out that the Hormone Replacement Therapy debacle of the 1990s started with HSPH's Meir Stampfer and the Nurses Health Study. Their 1991 paper proudly declared:
Overall, the bulk of the evidence strongly supports a protective effect of estrogens that is unlikely to be explained by confounding factors. […] A quantitative overview of all studies taken together yielded a relative risk of 0.56 (95% confidence interval 0.50-0.61), […] the relative risk was 0.50 (95% confidence interval 0.43-0.56).
Stampfer et. al. believed they'd found a 50% risk reduction for coronary heart disease (CHD) in the NHS data. When this hypothesis was tested in a randomized controlled trial (RCT), CHD risk actually increased to 30%. They weren't just off, they were completely and totally wrong.
In fact, the test was causing so many people to become sick that in 2002 the trial was stopped early by the safety monitoring board. Not only did actual CHD risk measure at +30%, invasive breast cancer came in at +26%, stroke at +41% and pulmonary embolism at a terrifying +113%. Remember, these are not estimates, these numbers represent actual clinical diagnoses from a controlled trial.
Now, years later, Stampfer and the HSPH have yet another paper using the same NHS data, this time telling us eating red meat will shorten our lives. Are we supposed to believe them this time because the numbers are so much smaller and less significant?


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"For his innovative studies of disordered systems ranging from structural glasses to granular materials."
Background:Dr. Nagel received his B.A. from Columbia University in 1969 and his Ph.D in Physics from Princeton University in 1974. From 1974 to 1976 he was a Research Associate at Brown University. In 1976 he moved to the University of Chicago where he has remained. He was the director of the University of Chicago Materials Research Laboratory from 1987 to 1991 and is currently the Louis Block Professor in the Physical Sciences.
Dr. Nagel has worked on several projects which deal in different ways with disordered, non-linear and out-of-equilibrium systems. Initially his work focused on experimental studies of the glass transition occurring when a liquid is supercooled into an amorphous solid. His interests subsequently broadened to include granular materials. The question which his current research asks is whether some of the physics that is inherent in the glass transition can be thought of as analogous to what happens when flowing particles under shear suddenly become jammed and resist further motion. Along a somewhat related line of research, he has been studying the singularities that occur in the interface motion in hydrodynamic flows. A drop falling from a faucet is a common example of singularity formation as the liquid fissions into two or more pieces.
Dr. Nagel is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Association for Advancement of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He received an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship from 1979 to 1981. He has been honored by selection to receive the 1996 Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and the Klopsteg Memorial Lectureship of the American Association of Physics Teacher, in 1998.
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Please see my for sale thread and buy my car.
http://www.ausgamers.com/forums/forsale/thread.php/3267449 |
moving to something smaller and cheaper to run?
Yep. Smaller/Cheaper/Economical. Sick of owing money on cars and wasting my money. Also heading overseas and want the money. It's been a good car to me and I am sad to let it go. <3.
what are you looking at (or already got to replace it)
No thoughts yet. I am most likely going to buy a second hand car around the 3-5 k mark. I want something reliable (for the price...), easy for me to work on myself and also a car I can learn with! My mechanic skills could use improving. I was thinking about a toyota.
oooooh, a corolla!
i cant even begin to imagine how fancy a corolla you could get for 3k! |
Hahaha love the close up of the sick exhaust!
Combined fuel use of 14l per 100km - she's frugal!
my new car does on the sticker 5.9, but my dash after 1200km's says 6.4 :(
Or in other words it's around $1 for every 10km's i drive @ 1.50 per L? Better than the soarer she takes around 5 dollars every 10km. :s she's a bit unhealthy. Working on that now i can take it off the road though. |
My car is too old to give me any fancy millage readings. But it's a 2.2 4cyl, so I think I'm ok.
Hahaha love the close up of the sick exhaust! Just trying to get it sold mate :). I don't have a hard on for it, but it is a nice sounding exhaust and if you are into V8's, you would get it. Spook - What Corolla should I get? Will it come with a lifetime guarantee? |
Toyota is one of the worst for warranty periods. Nissan offered me 4 years manufacturer warranty with 6 years on top dealership warranty. Hyundai offered me 5 years manufacturer warranty. Toyota offered me 3 and for a small fortune, an extension to 5.
Still took the toyota. :s |
1. fill the car until the pump clicks off 2. reset trip meter 3. drive until car needs fuel 4. fill the car until the pump clicks off 5. Note how many litres the car took 6. note how many kilometers are on the trip meter 7. calculate (litres / kilometers)*100 = llitres per 100km. 8. profit. |
Just trying to get it sold mate :). I don't have a hard on for it, but it is a nice sounding exhaust and if you are into V8's, you would get it.Spook - What Corolla should I get? Will it come with a lifetime guarantee? Nah no doubt, not having a go. You know the demographic you're going for. It's just not me and stood out as pandering, but smart pandering. |
not sure if its model specific, but i believe Toyota are offering 1 extra year Warranty (to 4years (still 100,000)).
The new Toyota Access looks pretty decent as well choose car, choose deposit if any, choose how many years + km per year. They say how much they will buy it back for, only pay loan on the difference, when loan ends, either payout balloon and keep/sell, swap for a new toyota. Looking seriously at the Toyota Camry Hybrid Luxury late this year/early next. 5.5l /100km, and fairly decent build, 8 year battery warranty. Last 2 cars have been toyota and they just seem bulletproof. |
Spook - What Corolla should I get? Will it come with a lifetime guarantee? i got the hardware model, been super happy with it, even if petal wasnt. i believe there is a whoop model floating around that would be dreamy! |
Lol super happy?
Even though the indicators don't work |
i got the hardware model, been super happy with it, even if petal wasnt. White AE92. 16" mags 4AGE "100kw" version bluetooth / ipod head unit fuly sik 12" doof doof (parcel shelf was already there from previous owner, had a spare sub, figured why not) Needed to pass RWC: - 1 tyre - 1 brake light... pfft the thing has 5 f*****g brake lights, like one missing is going to matter but apparently it does - new wiper blades and he reckons the CV boot is leaking, I reckon it's not, it's just all the grease coming out because I packed that f***** too full when I put it all back together and the excess grease has forced its way out. Either way I have a spare CV boot I'm contemplating putting on if it is broken, otherwise it just needs cleaning off. Also have a big box full of spare s*** and the 4 original 14" alloy rims, 2 with near new tyres, spare instrument cluster, spare facia and a spare ECU. Also have a spare head and cam covers. http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm190/pointyfork/cars/th_all_zpsc603b145.jpg |
how much are you chasing for that car out of curiosity whoop
I dunno, you see them all over carsales for $1500 - $5000, I was thinking somewhere in the middle. Maybe stick 2 or 3k on it and let someone haggle a bit. There's always that guy who rocks up & goes "I'll give you $1900 cash right now".
I've got about 12 more days to fix the crap on it & get the final inspection done before I can sell it rego'd though. |
2k? thats an outrageously expensive price!
glad i got the hardware model! |
are you really bro? i highly doubt that but buying the first car you looked at was the smartest plan |
i looked at other cars, but they wanted too much money.
when they have prices attached and price is all important, it does.
^^ same. Although I do like the fact the econobox goes more than 200kms before I have to fill it up again.
Difference being whoever buys mine will have a car they can just go and drive, and a boot full of spare parts, and another set of rims instead of a rusty s***box that's full of holes that's probably a deathtrap.2k? thats an outrageously expensive price! |
for that price, they would want to!
All you people getting older and trading your hoon mobiles for more sensible cars. I've done the reverse :/ don't worry bro i'm not about to sell my car for some eco-s****** |
Its not about the environment, it's about the money. I sat down and worked out how much it was costing me and there is more to life than cars I decided. Plus I have to grow up and become more responsible, I am even consolidating my super. So many chores to do. Getting older is no fun.
Getting older is no fun. http://img0.joyreactor.cc/pics/comment/Комиксы-oglaf-оглаф-пиздодразнитель-272810.png |
^ Or get an Android app: Fuelio. It has charts! B****** love charts |
Or get an Android app: Fuelio. It has charts! B****** love chartshttps://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?pID=38354 |
The new Toyota Access looks pretty decent as well There is two ways to look at this: 1) The car is basically a mobile phone plan, you go from model to model. 2) The car is on a huge balloon lease, where after 4 years you restart the whole thing, kind of like a lease car but without any salaray sacrifice lowering of income etc. I basically couldn't figure whether to go 0% for 4 years or toyota access for 4, but i guess it works like this: if you keep your car low KM's and clean, you probably would be better off selling it outright after 4 years for more than the balloon is worth. But you did pay upfront money to get there. So you have to discount the cost back to compare. It's actually a really complicated thing, so in the end i went with the good finance rate and outright ownership after 4 years, because all the figures are too guesstimatey to use finance calculations with any kind of meaning. Just understand that you never own the car unless at the end of the 4 year access you pay out the 8k or 16k or whatever the agreed final value is. Edit: don't worry bro i'm not about to sell my car for some eco-s******Well, if this is Pave's advice, what could possibly go wrong.......... |
apart from upgrading to a gtr of some kind at some point or maybe a 335i or a audi s5 down the track as a daily
i guess it depends on 2 thing: 1. how much you really like cars 2. if you know you'll be capable of earning enough money to do boring responsible s*** and own a not-boring car at the same time |
don't worry bro i'm not about to sell my car for some eco-s****** That hurts me right in the i30 :( |
That hurts me right in the i30 :(you carry around too many subwoofers to get fuel economy out of an i30 |
I just got 640km out of my last $60 tank :D
I can get 1,000km out of a tank in my i30 - and it's Turbo, yo!!
Highway, yes. |
How many litres though? No good if it's a 50megalitre tank.
Yeah thats 640km city with the 2.0L petrol
I've done 700+ driving syd/bne though |
Tank is 53 litres.
The light came on around 950km from memory. Car was full to, 2 adults, 3 kids and boot full. |
Stupid f*****g edit.....
It averaged around 4.7l per 100km on that trip. |
Yeah there are no Petrol Turbo i30s - just Diesel
Other than that its a veloster turbo |
my 2L renault petrol, averages 6.8L/100kms in normal
and a 7.9, in the city 8.1 with the A/C on full |
My car has wtfhorrible mileage, but it often wins in a d*** waving contest.
http://i.imgur.com/dFw9J.png Maybe nf will finally respect me :P |
Respect? no
Ridicule? yes. |
My car has wtfhorrible mileage, but it often wins in a d*** waving contest.http://i.imgur.com/dFw9J.pngMaybe nf will finally respect me :P I was sitting at the lights in my fully sick corolla (from previous page) and an xr6 turbo owner (it was blue) was so jealous when the lights went green he pinged it off the rev limiter just to get in front of me. Then proceeded to go granny pace around all the corners and as soon as another straight came BAMF! rev limiter. what a f***en tool. There might also have been a dragon |
is that a BA thunder ?
i had a hilarious xr6t driver pull up at the lights next to me the other day and do the same thing whoop, i didn't follow him through lights but he nailed it full ball just to get in front of me i just take off like a granny because my f**** given are pretty minimal |
Heh yeah I was driving the other day and I saw this car that was obviously less powerful than mine and I thought "who gives a f***". Later I posted about it on the internet.
FG series 1.
Only serious complaint so far would be the ZF gearbox in it. I gotta get mine look at because the change down from 2 to 1 is sloooooow when cold. In semi-auto mode the gear change is OK, so I assume the electronic timing settings on it need work. Otherwise the car acts just like you would expect when you plonk a turbo on an xr6. 270kw, still handles like a boat :P I don't see many other xr6 turbos getting around tbqh |
you must be blind because they are everywhere
i've seen more xr6t getting around than xr8 for a long time |
Heh yeah I was driving the other day and I saw this car that was obviously less powerful than mine and I thought "who gives a f***". Later I posted about it on the internet.needs dragons bro |
Yeah barely any xr8s getting around. The falcon is a dying model. No more past 2016 apparently. no quite, that is a media bit trolled out at the end of every falcon model life since the EL sure, the future is unsure, but the falcon is the longest running large car, and the only one left with a true link to the sports cars of the 60's 70's after all, pretty sure the falcon (if you go by early media releases) should be a small front wheel drive car by now |
The falcon is a dying model. No more past 2016 apparently.Yeah, this isn't totally correct. No more falcon as a unique model, it'll be a mustang based falcon. So it's just going back to the 60's and 70's shared-model essentially. |
I hate navara drivers
they are generally the worst f***wit tradesman types you've ever met |
Funny, I seem to think the same of ford & holden drivers. Bunch of f***wit bogans. I should know, I was a commodore driver. Lost the commodore, I'm still a f***wit though.
I saw a car thread thought I would upload some pics of the new ride between the misses and I.
2013 VW CC (not a Passat) 200hp 2.0l TDI (goes well gets up to a limited 250km/h on the autobahn in a reasonable time) double clutch paddle shift gearbox bi-xenon headlights EDC suspension (sport, comfort & normal. I was surprised at the difference this makes while driving) 17" winter wheels 235/40/17 (i think) & 18" summers 255/35/18 auto stop start auto brake hold ABS button applied handbrake 10 speaker stereo with bluetooth, windscreen heater (so awesome for living in snow) 6L/100km city driving 10% tint on all rear windows nav system auto windscreen wipers climate control heated seats cruise control Traction control electric steering (i dont really like this) leather cross suede (sp?) seats auto headlights parking sensors brake disk drying feature for wet conditions traffic updates via nav brushed ally interior full trip computer custom plates except for the N at the start, the first letter of our first names and weeding anniversary Not the best photos I have had limited time to get clean shots plus the weather has been crap lately. http://i.imgur.com/1sxhu5M.jpg http://i.imgur.com/RfkmyOf.jpg http://i.imgur.com/1OPILHh.jpg http://i.imgur.com/ZMGu9O2.jpg http://i.imgur.com/n8zYhsr.jpg |
yeah ok I can not edit that post so yeah deal with the huge images.
until then here are the normal sizes. http://i.imgur.com/RfkmyOfl.jpg?1 http://i.imgur.com/1OPILHhl.jpg?1 http://i.imgur.com/1sxhu5Ml.jpg?1 http://i.imgur.com/ZMGu9O2l.jpg?1 http://i.imgur.com/5byQgHHl.jpg?1 http://i.imgur.com/n8zYhsrl.jpg?1 |
custom plates except for the N at the start, the first letter of our first names and weeding anniversary http://media.tumblr.com/64f871bd5105dbc2de2bd5a3086be914/tumblr_inline_mgn43glY7X1qbnggp.jpg |
haha pave made me laugh and the wife say "thats a bit rude"
pretty much all custom plates are gay if you ask me.
even if they refer to a womans weewee parts. |
sounds like someone is jelly that they will be an old(er) man by the time they can afford a car worth putting personalised plates on + afford the plates themselves
+ afford the plates themselves 7 digit prestige plates for $3k+, tempted for e-peen value only. |